Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Its time to continue with the episode
#17 Exodus chapters 33 & 34.
Chapter 33
Closing Time
- God tells Moses to peace and that the land of Canaan will be his for the taking.
- He also tells Moses that he, God, will no longer be personally accompanying the people. He's kind of sick of them: "Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, or I would consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people."
Chapter 34
Moses Becomes Stanley Kubrick and Everyone Goes Home Semi-Happy
- God tells Moses to recut some stones for new tablets and meet him on the mountain alone. Spooky much?
- God proclaims his power with this nifty poem in 34:6-8:
- "The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,/ Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation."
